Cursed be the one who brought the news to my father, “A child, a son, has been born to you!” filling him with great joy.
Who would ever have told Abraham,” she added, “that Sarah would nurse children! Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you.
And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth,